Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is not expected to feature at all for Liverpool in the 2018/19 campaign, sbo888 as his cruciate ligament injury will take significantly more time to recover from. Even though the Reds were already aware of the extent of the injury picked up during last term's Champions League semi-finals, a decision was made to keep that information private until now."It feels like now is an appropriate time to tell people that this coming season will be about focusing on recovery and rehab," Klopp told the club's website."We have known this from pretty much the day after he got the injury and, after the successful surgery, we were sure of it. "I hope everyone treats this information responsibly. "There has been no change, no setback."It's exactly on the schedule we expected and planned for. "The new information is that we're now giving more sbo888 detail publicly."It is typical of [Oxlade-Chamberlain] that he didn't want the news to overshadow the end of the season and, to be quite honest, we thought we could wait and tell people at an appropriate time."His surgery, which he had on the day of our second leg against Roma, has been completely successful and his recovery has started superbly well."But the truth of the matter is that we are preparing this season knowing he will not be with us on the pitch for competitive matches for the majority of it. "If we do see him back this season it will be a bonus."The English midfielder joined Liverpool from Arsenal in the summer of 2017 and had a successful first season at Anfield, before his injury. sbo888